*As we all know, whether we want to admit it or not, truth ain’t always pretty. As a matter of fact, its usually ugly. Think about it.
When someone you know and love tells you something about your look, behavior or attitude — and that something is not meant to be an insult but its unflattering, we’re hurt. And keeping with the whole pretty vs. ugly metaphor, we see it as ugly. Their remark to us, about us, was ugly.
But it takes a bigger person to see the ugliness within, like this dad of an interracial family who decided to put himself on blast.
KTVU (San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area) evening anchor Frank Somerville is known for putting the business of other folks out there on his social media site. But recently, an incident he created had him facing his own racial biases, and he turned the proverbial camera on himself by putting it on Facebook.
Somerville recounts the story this way. He noticed, while walking past a bus stop at 8 p.m. one evening, a white woman sitting alone, and a Black man heading in her direction. Right then and there, he decided to “keep an eye” on the situation. Suspecting this Black man was surely up to no good.
Then, out of nowhere, a young boy ran up and grabbed the man’s hand. Somerville felt like a complete ass; changing his whole perspective once he realized the man was a father.
He writes…
“I have a confession to make. It’s embarrassing.”
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